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AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory

That's pretty good for no voltage control. My 7970 wouldn't clock that high on stock voltage and that was a golden clocker. Sad to see Elpida memory on there though, shoulda used Hynix. Weird because the last pcb of a 290X i saw had Hynix memory on there. I suppose with the 512bit bus though there is not such a need for the fastest memory. I wonder if the Hynix problems have anything to do with this.
 
humbug said:
They will have 1250Mhz rated IC's, some 3'rd parties will put faster IC's on them ^^^^



Its difficult to judge the the performance as Gregsters 3DMark11 bench thread doesn't list GPU scores, clock rates or have links to the bench :p
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GPU scores are down the bottom
 
Ok.

The fastest Titan, (other than 8 Pack who doesn't count) :p http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1197531

Graphics Score 13825 @ ?????? Gregster?

This bench @ 1100 / 1450

Graphics Score 12824 (-8%)

I would say that not bad going given that Gregsters Titan will be running at about ~1300Mhz



 
humbug said:
Ok.

The fastest Titan, (other than 8 Pack who doesn't count) :p http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1197531

Graphics Score 13825 @ ?????? Gregster?

This bench @ 1100 / 1450

Graphics Score 12824 (-8%)

I would say that not bad going given that Gregsters Titan will be running at about ~1300Mhz

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Could it be that after just 8 months AMD have come up with a card that might just edge out the Titan?
Doesn't technology move at a blistering pace... :D
 
So not as fast as my 1267Mhz Titan but still not bad at all. BTW, 3DMark11 bench thread lists GPU scores only and again running my Titan at 1267 (ish), it is 2000 points behind me roughly, so not bad at all :D

Ohhh and I didn't think we were allowed to believe some dodgy Chinese guy?
 
ah... I see it now, thanks Greg ^^^^ :)

LtMatt said:
That's pretty good for no voltage control. My 7970 wouldn't clock that high on stock voltage and that was a golden clocker. Sad to see Elpida memory on there though, shoulda used Hynix. Weird because the last pcb of a 290X i saw had Hynix memory on there. I suppose with the 512bit bus though there is not such a need for the fastest memory. I wonder if the Hynix problems have anything to do with this.
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Possibly, my 7870XT is an early one with the 0.28 BIOS, it comes with Hynix IC's, I know this also because I have had the cooler off to replace the dry TIM.

The Memory overclocks to 1625Mhz stable, this with no memory Voltage unlock, later revisions with 0.30 BIOS and later come with the Elpida IC's which go to 1550 if they overclock at all.

Both the Hynix and Elpida versions are 1500Mhz rated.
 
temps look great to me!
not sure why amd havent released a couple bench showing that
if real, amd stupid
my guess, amd stupid :p
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
Could it be that after just 8 months AMD have come up with a card that might just edge out the Titan?
Doesn't technology move at a blistering pace... :D
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440mm and 28nm, pretty good in any book.
next jump is 20nm.
crossfire, Mantle all features for the games I play.

someone please put a waterblock on these and see what they can do
 
Looking at the scores for the normal preset runs on 3dmark11 and firestrike the R9 290X seems to be on a par with the Titans.

Now the strange bit, on the 3dmark11 extreme preset and the Firestrike extreme preset (posted the other day) the R9 290X is a long way short of a Titan.

Going on the benchmarks it looks like the Titan handles graphics heavy benches better.

It will be interesting to see how the R9 290X goes on Heaven 4 at extreme settings and high resolutions, I think it may struggle.

On Valley I would expect the R9 290X to thrash a Titan as it is not very demanding graphics wise and the high fps seem to suit the AMD card.
 
Kaapstad said:
Looking at the scores for the normal preset runs on 3dmark11 and firestrike the R9 290X seems to be on a par with the Titans.

Now the strange bit, on the 3dmark11 extreme preset and the Firestrike extreme preset (posted the other day) the R9 290X is a long way short of a Titan.

Going on the benchmarks it looks like the Titan handles graphics heavy benches better.

It will be interesting to see how the R9 290X goes on Heaven 4 at extreme settings and high resolutions, I think it may struggle.

On Valley I would expect the R9 290X to thrash a Titan as it is not very demanding graphics wise and the high fps seem to suit the AMD card.
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That was on pre 290X drivers though Kaap. If you're referring to the benchmarks i posted date 22sept. They showed the 290X faster than the titan in games but slower in synthetics. The 290X drivers, 13.11, released after that showed gains in synthetics. Even us with lower spec cards noticed that.

I'm more interested to see how a 290X does at high settings, with high amounts of AA whilst playing the latest games. Synthetic benchmark scores mean nothing unless all you play is synthetic benchmarks. I understand this applies to you though. :p
 
Gregster said:
Fair points and we all think differently, which is great. For me, if I was chuffing up for a 4K monitor, I would want to show it off in its full glory and get the wow factor. And going from Ryan at PCper, he said you still need AA to remove the jaggies (which surprised me).
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You do but x2 or x4 easily enough
 
LtMatt said:
That's pretty good for no voltage control. My 7970 wouldn't clock that high on stock voltage and that was a golden clocker. Sad to see Elpida memory on there though, shoulda used Hynix. Weird because the last pcb of a 290X i saw had Hynix memory on there. I suppose with the 512bit bus though there is not such a need for the fastest memory. I wonder if the Hynix problems have anything to do with this.
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No voltage control? the box shot shows unlocked voltage.
 
bru said:
No voltage control? the box shot shows unlocked voltage.
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Of course it does Bru, but Unwinder (Afterburner creator) will not have written code in to make use you of the new voltage controllers on the 290X cards yet. He will not do this until they are due to be released.
 
I just noticed something, its an XFX, they always put the slower 1250Mhz IC's on their GPU's, they are cheap penny pinchers.

Even the 7870XT which was lunched by AMD as 975 / 1500 and has 1500Mhz rated IC's, XFX glued 1250Mhz IC's on theirs and ran them @ 975 / 1250.
 
Gregster said:
The thing is, I have had a little play with my 1080P and 1440P monitors over the last couple of days and I am inclined to agree with you. I couldn't see the difference with SSAO/HBAO and 1080P/1440P. They all looked the same to me but with the 1080P feeling much smoother.

1440P colours look much more vibrant and deeper but that's it as far as image goes, I think I was having a placebo effect when switching up to 1440P and wanting to see sharper images. Maybe it is my old eyes but I do work 150Ft up and need good vision, so I doubt it :p
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I find knocking the res down to 1080p on my dell makes it look ugly as sin Greg. The sharpness goes and everything is bigger,a bit blurry and more pixelated
 
LtMatt said:
I'm more interested to see how a 290X does at high settings, with high amounts of AA whilst playing the latest games. Synthetic benchmark scores mean nothing unless all you play is synthetic benchmarks. I understand this applies to you though. :p
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Going on those benches, much the same. Fine at normal settings but struggling at high settings.
 
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